3DM® 2 Online Help

Downloading the Driver and Firmware
You can download the latest drivers and firmware from the LSI website, at http://www.lsi.com/channel/ChannelDownloads. You can also download the 3ware CD ISO file and create a CD.

| Note: Information in this section applies to updating drivers and firmware for the 9750 controllers. The LSI website also allows you to download drivers for other 3ware controller models and associated release notes.

| Note: For Linux, do not use the driver from the external Linux distribution if it is older than the currently supported driver. Instead, use the current driver from the 3ware CD or from the 3ware web site.

To download the driver or firmware

1 | On the LSI website go to http://www.lsi.com/channel/ChannelDownloads.

2 | Select RAID Controllers as the Product Family.

3 | Select your product from the drop-down list on the right.

4 | When the page has refreshed, locate the item you want to download and click the link to the file.

Depending on the item you selected, you may see either .zip (for Windows) or .tgz (for Linux) files to download.

| Note: If using Winzip or another Windows utility to extract the Linux file, use the .zip version instead of the .tgz version. Otherwise the files will not be compatible with Linux.

5 | In the dialog box that appears, click Save to save the file to disk.

6 | Uncompress the file to extract the driver or firmware files to a local directory. (Note that the firmware will not fit on a floppy diskette.)

(Make note of the absolute path to the local directory.)

7 | Turn to the driver section for your operating system:

| Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows

| Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core

| Updating the 3ware Driver Under SUSE

Or, to update the firmware, turn to

| Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2 (for any operating system with a Windowing user interface)

| Updating the Firmware Through DOS Using the 3ware Bootable CD

To download the 3ware CD

1 | On the LSI website go to http://www.lsi.com/channel/ChannelDownloads.

2 | Select RAID Controllers as the Product Family.

3 | Select your product from the dropdown on the right.

4 | When the page has refreshed, locate the ISO for the CD (in the Software section) and click the link to the file.

5 | In the dialog box that appears, click Save to save the file to disk.

6 | After the download has completed, burn the ISO to a CD.

For more information on updating the drivers under different operating systems, see 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Software User Guide, Version 10.0.

Related Topics
  Determining the Current Version of Your 3ware Driver

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